Thanx for the cross posting, but I now see a few typos:
I teach two courses that are new to my school this year using SAGE
and by
extension python. I also teach AP CompSci (used to be AB now A).
The first is a rewrite of my "Computer Math" course using Maria and
Gary
Litvin's new text "Mathematics for the Digital Age." This course
used to be
an intro to computer science and is a pre-requisite to AP Computer
Science
the following year. Now its more of a Discrete Math class but we use
SAGE
and do plenty of python. Mainly Regents track Juniors and Honors
track
Sophomores take this.
The second is a lab course, "Calculus Research Lab" (I wanted to call
"it Scientific Computing Lab," but my boss changed it), that meets
every other
day like a science class for my AP Calculus BC students. We use
several
free pdf texts from http://www.sagemath.org to do Calculus in a
computer lab
setting and we use some python. These students are very over
scheduled, so
this new lab is not required. To get enough kids to sign up for this
new
course, I had to open it up to the AP Calculus AB students too so
there's a
lot of review for my BC kids which ain't all bad.
HTH,
A. Jorge Garcia
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
Teacher & Professor
Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College
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